Philips DIY Remote Control from the 1960s

[Phil_G]

Philips Electronics for YOU series from the 1960s … a three part article on building a Remote Control, Philips 1960s style!
Effectively its a super-regenerative three channel tuned-filter (like reeds without the reedbank)
The three tones give left, right, and a sequential motor control.
Many thanks to Terry (aka 'valvepower') on the Vintage Radio Repair & Restoration forum for providing these unusual scans.
To save Mikes storage space they're hosted here, right-click, save link as...
https://www.mccrash-racing.co.uk/philg/ ... _1960s.zip

[Pchristy]

That's a brilliant find, Phil!

Did Philips inspire Grundig and Metz to use filters instead of reeds, or was it vice-versa, I wonder?

Certainly a lot of HiFis in the 60s and 70s were based on Mullard circuits.

--
Pete

[Mike_K]

Hi Phil

Another great find, something I had never seen before.

In answer to Pete's question of who inspired who, Grundig were definitely before Philips, their Bellaphon multi-channel sets were tone filters and were from the early 60s (or late 50s I haven't got any 1950s German R/C magazines to look for adverts), followed by the Variophon, then the Philips made R/C gear similar to Graupner/Grundig Variophon appeared mid 1960s. The Philips sets appeared to follow the lead of Grundig in another way and were housed in portable transistor radio cases, so look very similar. I have not got any Philips sets but there are pictures of some on this site:

https://myalbum.com/album/Y1e7BsOn6FTF/

I think the title on the site translates to "The development of RC equipment in pictures" and is by Arnout and Olaf. Below are some pictures I "grabbed" from their site.

[Shaun]

Oooooo. I would like one of those in the collection.

[F2B]

I think the title on the site translates to "The development of RC equipment in pictures" and is by Arnout and Olaf. Below are some pictures I "grabbed" from their site.

Hi Mike,

Your translation is spot on...
Arnout is a member of our Dutch vintage/classic group PH-SAM (just like Raymond, HenkB and me).
If you'd like, I could ask him to contact you...
Or at least point him to this posting.

Cheers,
Bruno

[Mike_K]

Hi Mike,

Your translation is spot on...
Arnout is a member of our Dutch vintage/classic group PH-SAM (just like Raymond, HenkB and me).
If you'd like, I could ask him to contact you...
Or at least point him to this posting.

Cheers,
Bruno

Thanks Bruno,

Google translate has improved over the years and now does a good job! If any of the Dutch classic group has more information on the Phillips sets, it would be great, I don't think they were ever advertised or sold in the UK and I've only ever seen them on Arnout's website. We're there any other Dutch R/C manufacturers?

I would love to know more about them as I'm slowly working on the "Alternative R/C Hall of Fame" website, the USA site covers all American sets but nothing about the European, Japanese, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand sets, which must amount to more manufacturers and sets than the USA produced. But that is another story...

[F2B]

It occurred to me that the manuals, visible in your post are in German.
I vaguely remember seeing a description of these sets somewhere, that these were a Philips Germany thing.
There never was anything Dutch about it, even though Philips is a Dutch company.
The LC tone decoder points into that direction too.
I'll let Arnout know, maybe he has more information.

[MaxZ]

Arnout is a member of our Dutch vintage/classic group PH-SAM (just like Raymond, HenkB and me).

And me......

BTW, if you search the internet on this use the correct company name "Philips" (one "l")

Cheers,
Max.

[F2B]

Arnout is a member of our Dutch vintage/classic group PH-SAM (just like Raymond, HenkB and me).

And me......

BTW, if you search the internet on this use the correct company name "Philips" (one "l")

Cheers,
Max.

I knew there was something/someone missing...

[Mike_K]

I've used admin to correct the spelling of Philips to one "l", except for Phil's link (Phil with one "l"!!) which has to keep the original spelling